I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post:
https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with...One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more accurate in Cursor).
I am glad to hear that Zed got a round of funding. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed This will go a long way to creating real competition to Cursor in the form of a quality IDE not built on VSCode
What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
Every single new HN thread should come with an automod post badmouthing Electron to save everyone time.
its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it
With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
This will never happen and it's a bizarre, legacy fantasy, borne of a fixed imaginary ideal of what computing should
be. Programming will continue to move in the direction of ease-of-use and every time I see an out-of-topic reference to Electron in this forum I feel insane, like I'm fighting upstream. You will not see this - you will see more Electron apps, because that is the modern way of building cross-platform apps, and if you genuinely don't understand why that is I don't know how to explain it to you. You won't see another version of those because nobody is going to waste their time building cross-platform native apps
at a native layer to performatively impress posters on HN. You, and seemingly everybody else on HN, can continue to pretend that devex doesn't matter, but that's the difference I guess between caring about devex and shipping products.